[gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the keyboard, 
nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything else I have set 
up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected language and keyboard, but (I 
think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking language is used instead.

Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it up so 
that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings?

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.UTF8
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote:
> Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything
> else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected language
> and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking
> language is used instead.

In what applications, Mick?

> Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it up
> so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings?
> 
> $ env | grep LANG
> LANG=en_GB.UTF8

I have en_GB set up and apparently working. I haven't done anything in 
particular to the environment, just used applications' setup.

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote:
> > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything
> > else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected language
> > and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking
> > language is used instead.
> 
> In what applications, Mick?

Kate, Kmail, Firefox, et al.


> > Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it up
> > so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings?
> > 
> > $ env | grep LANG
> > LANG=en_GB.UTF8
> 
> I have en_GB set up and apparently working. I haven't done anything in
> particular to the environment, just used applications' setup.

The keyboard layout works fine on console and other desktop environments.  It 
is just Plasma I noticed is not collaborating.

Are you also running Plasma with openrc?
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:38:48 BST Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote:
> > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> > > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or
> > > anything else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the
> > > selected language and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and
> > > spell checking language is used instead.
> > 
> > In what applications, Mick?
> 
> Kate, Kmail, Firefox, et al.

In KMail, you need to set the language in your Identity, under Advanced. 
KMail ignores the system-wide setting, and so does KWrite. In Firefox, as 
far as I can remember the language was already right. I don't use Kate; in 
fact, it seems not to be present. Libre Office seems to associate its 
language with each document.

> > > Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set
> > > it up so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment
> > > settings?
> > > 
> > > $ env | grep LANG
> > > LANG=en_GB.UTF8
> > 
> > I have en_GB set up and apparently working. I haven't done anything in
> > particular to the environment, just used applications' setup.
> 
> The keyboard layout works fine on console and other desktop environments. 
> It is just Plasma I noticed is not collaborating.
> 
> Are you also running Plasma with openrc?

Yes. Here are my language settings:

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB

$ grep GB /etc/portage/make.conf
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GB.UTF-8"
L10N="en-GB en"
LINGUAS="en_GB en"

You haven't been caught by that L10N trap, have you? The hyphen where you 
would expect an underscore?

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:38:48 BST Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote:
> > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> > > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything
> > > else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected
> > > language
> > > and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking
> > > language is used instead.
> > 
> > In what applications, Mick?
> 
> Kate, Kmail, Firefox, et al.
> 
> > > Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it
> > > up
> > > so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings?
> > > 
> > > $ env | grep LANG
> > > LANG=en_GB.UTF8
> > 
> > I have en_GB set up and apparently working. I haven't done anything in
> > particular to the environment, just used applications' setup.
> 
> The keyboard layout works fine on console and other desktop environments. 
> It is just Plasma I noticed is not collaborating.
> 
> Are you also running Plasma with openrc?

Another complain surfaced:  apparently users cannot edit their own user icon, 
the one that appears to the left of the name of the user in the start up 
panel.  systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user.  Existing user accounts 
are not listed.

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:03:21 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:38:48 BST Mick wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote:
> > > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> > > > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or
> > > > anything else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the
> > > > selected language and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and
> > > > spell checking language is used instead.
> > > 
> > > In what applications, Mick?
> > 
> > Kate, Kmail, Firefox, et al.
> 
> In KMail, you need to set the language in your Identity, under Advanced.
> KMail ignores the system-wide setting, and so does KWrite. 

Aha!  I had forgotten about this setting in Kmail, but unfortunately it makes 
no difference.  The setting in question seems to be desktop wide and affects 
all applications within Plasma.  :-(


> In Firefox, as
> far as I can remember the language was already right. I don't use Kate; in
> fact, it seems not to be present. Libre Office seems to associate its
> language with each document.
> 
> > > > Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set
> > > > it up so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment
> > > > settings?
> > > > 
> > > > $ env | grep LANG
> > > > LANG=en_GB.UTF8
> > > 
> > > I have en_GB set up and apparently working. I haven't done anything in
> > > particular to the environment, just used applications' setup.
> > 
> > The keyboard layout works fine on console and other desktop environments.
> > It is just Plasma I noticed is not collaborating.
> > 
> > Are you also running Plasma with openrc?
> 
> Yes. Here are my language settings:
> 
> $ env | grep LANG
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_GB
> 
> $ grep GB /etc/portage/make.conf
> LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
> LANGUAGE="en_GB.UTF-8"
> L10N="en-GB en"
> LINGUAS="en_GB en"
> 
> You haven't been caught by that L10N trap, have you? The hyphen where you
> would expect an underscore?

Hmm ... I have the following:

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

$ grep GB /etc/portage/make.conf
LINGUAS="en_GB en"
L10N="en-GB"

I wasn't aware there is a LANGUAGE variable.  I couldn't find it here:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide

Is this is a new setting?  What applications use this?
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:57:17 BST Mick wrote:

> Hmm ... I have the following:
> 
> $ env | grep LANG
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> $ grep GB /etc/portage/make.conf
> LINGUAS="en_GB en"
> L10N="en-GB"
> 
> I wasn't aware there is a LANGUAGE variable.  I couldn't find it here:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide
> 
> Is this is a new setting?  What applications use this?

You have me there. No, it's very far from new; it's just survived in 
make.conf by default. Maybe it doesn't exist any more. I'll try removing it 
and see what happens.

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:25:14 BST Mick wrote:

> Another complain surfaced:  apparently users cannot edit their own user
> icon, the one that appears to the left of the name of the user in the
> start up panel.  systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user.  Existing
> user accounts are not listed.

Now that's definitely wrong. I have no users other than myself, but I do 
appear in the user manager. I do have to give the root password to save any 
changes I make, though, which is only natural.

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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On Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:11:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:25:14 BST Mick wrote:
> > Another complain surfaced:  apparently users cannot edit their own user
> > icon, the one that appears to the left of the name of the user in the
> > start up panel.  systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user.  Existing
> > user accounts are not listed.
> 
> Now that's definitely wrong. I have no users other than myself, but I do
> appear in the user manager. I do have to give the root password to save any
> changes I make, though, which is only natural.

This particular box has two users.  I logged in with my user (I belong to the 
wheel group) and still no existing users were listed.  All I could do is add a 
new user, which is not something I would like to do.

Can you please confirm if you are running systemd with your Plasma 
installation?

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:33:50 BST Mick wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:11:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:25:14 BST Mick wrote:
> > > Another complain surfaced:  apparently users cannot edit their own
> > > user
> > > icon, the one that appears to the left of the name of the user in the
> > > start up panel.  systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user. 
> > > Existing
> > > user accounts are not listed.
> > 
> > Now that's definitely wrong. I have no users other than myself, but I do
> > appear in the user manager. I do have to give the root password to save
> > any changes I make, though, which is only natural.
> 
> This particular box has two users.  I logged in with my user (I belong to
> the wheel group) and still no existing users were listed.  All I could do
> is add a new user, which is not something I would like to do.
> 
> Can you please confirm if you are running systemd with your Plasma
> installation?

No, just good old openrc.

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:17:07PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > > > systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user. Existing user
> > > > accounts are not listed.
> > > 
> > > Now that's definitely wrong. I have no users other than myself, but I do
> > > appear in the user manager. I do have to give the root password to save
> > > any changes I make, though, which is only natural.
> > 
> > […] All I could do is add a new user, which is not something I would
> > like to do.
> >
> > Can you please confirm if you are running systemd with your Plasma
> > installation?
> 
> No, just good old openrc.

I’m on openrc, too, and my user details dialog only shows “New user”.
Neither my own account nor the guest account that I added a few days back
is visible. Clicking on the [+] at the bottom has no effect at all.

Starting system settings from the terminal prints one line:
log_user_manager: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name
org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files"
Not sure though whether that’s related.
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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:24:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote:

> I’m on openrc, too, and my user details dialog only shows “New user”.
> Neither my own account nor the guest account that I added a few days back
> is visible. Clicking on the [+] at the bottom has no effect at all.
> 
> Starting system settings from the terminal prints one line:
> log_user_manager: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name
> org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files"
> Not sure though whether that’s related.

It certainly sounds likely. Do you start dbus in the default run level?

# rc-update -s -v | grep dbus
                 dbus |      default                               

Aren't *.service files part of systemd? I have none of them here. I wonder 
why your system is looking for one.

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Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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On Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:56:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:24:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > I’m on openrc, too, and my user details dialog only shows “New user”.
> > Neither my own account nor the guest account that I added a few days back
> > is visible. Clicking on the [+] at the bottom has no effect at all.
> > 
> > Starting system settings from the terminal prints one line:
> > log_user_manager: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name
> > org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files"
> > Not sure though whether that’s related.

I am not getting any of this in konsole.  systemsettings5 starts without any 
funfair.


> It certainly sounds likely. Do you start dbus in the default run level?
> 
> # rc-update -s -v | grep dbus
>                  dbus |      default
> 
> Aren't *.service files part of systemd? I have none of them here. I wonder
> why your system is looking for one.

Thanks for this Peter, I just discovered on this PC I had not added dbus in 
the default run level.  Interestingly, dbus *is* running all the same:

# rc-update -s -v | grep dbus
                 dbus |

# ps axf | grep dbus
 1701 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
 2763 ?        S      0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 
bea9f7f8958e4471f4c1d45f549ae52c --binary-syntax --close-stderr
 2764 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-
address 7 --session
 3013 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-
session
 3014 ?        Ss     0:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-
address 15 --session
 3849 pts/2    S+     0:00              \_ grep --colour=auto dbus

So, something must be starting it - probably kdestart/plasmastart or whatever 
sddm is running to start the plasma session.
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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2017, 19:07:20 CEST schrieb Mick:
> Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything
> else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected language
> and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking
> language is used instead.

I have a slightly different problem with recent Plasma versions, but I wonder 
if they're related:

Changing the spell checking language doesn't do anything, it sticks to 
whatever was selected to begin with, even though it *looks* like I changed the 
selection.  For example, if German is the initial selection, after changing to 
any English variant English-only words are still highlighted as incorrect.

I did just test changing the keyboard, though, and that still works (via the 
default Ctrl-Alt-k keybinding).

> Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it up
> so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings?

I don't understand why you would think that to be the case, systemd also just 
uses (and controls, if you use localectl) the usual variables in /etc/
locale.conf.

> $ env | grep LANG
> LANG=en_GB.UTF8

For completeness, I've got:

% env | grep LANG
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LANGUAGE=de:en_GB

HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Daniel Frey]

On 09/16/2017 12:24 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> 
> I’m on openrc, too, and my user details dialog only shows “New user”.
> Neither my own account nor the guest account that I added a few days back
> is visible. Clicking on the [+] at the bottom has no effect at all.
> 

The machine I'm on right now is systemd, and I don't see a list of users 
in the User Details part of the control panel either. Maybe it's just a 
KDE thing?

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Mick]

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On Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:27:18 BST Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2017, 19:07:20 CEST schrieb Mick:
> > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything
> > else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected language
> > and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking
> > language is used instead.
> 
> I have a slightly different problem with recent Plasma versions, but I
> wonder if they're related:
> 
> Changing the spell checking language doesn't do anything, it sticks to
> whatever was selected to begin with, even though it *looks* like I changed
> the selection.  For example, if German is the initial selection, after
> changing to any English variant English-only words are still highlighted as
> incorrect.
> 
> I did just test changing the keyboard, though, and that still works (via the
> default Ctrl-Alt-k keybinding).

Ahh!  This is interesting.  It only showed US keyboard being available.  So I 
looked into systemsettings5 and I discovered only US keyboard was listed.  So, 
I added the UK keyboard and this seems to have fixed the keyboard problem.  
Thanks for the hint.


> > Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it up
> > so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings?
> 
> I don't understand why you would think that to be the case, systemd also
> just uses (and controls, if you use localectl) the usual variables in /etc/
> locale.conf.
> 
> > $ env | grep LANG
> > LANG=en_GB.UTF8
> 
> For completeness, I've got:
> 
> % env | grep LANG
> LANG=de_DE.utf8
> LANGUAGE=de:en_GB
> 
> HTH

Where is the LANGUAGE variable expected/required?  I have not found it in the 
documentation.

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Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:00:43 BST Mick wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:27:18 BST Marc Joliet wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2017, 19:07:20 CEST schrieb Mick:
> > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the
> > > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or
> > > anything
> > > else I have set up.  systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected
> > > language
> > > and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking
> > > language is used instead.
> > 
> > I have a slightly different problem with recent Plasma versions, but I
> > wonder if they're related:
> > 
> > Changing the spell checking language doesn't do anything, it sticks to
> > whatever was selected to begin with, even though it *looks* like I
> > changed the selection.  For example, if German is the initial
> > selection, after changing to any English variant English-only words are
> > still highlighted as incorrect.
> > 
> > I did just test changing the keyboard, though, and that still works (via
> > the default Ctrl-Alt-k keybinding).
> 
> Ahh!  This is interesting.  It only showed US keyboard being available. 
> So I looked into systemsettings5 and I discovered only US keyboard was
> listed.  So, I added the UK keyboard and this seems to have fixed the
> keyboard problem. Thanks for the hint.

First thing I do when setting up a new KDE account - and I've done it so 
many times in recent weeks that I lost count long ago. Keyboard, then 
regional settings and only after that the visual aspects.

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Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:56:34AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:24:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
[…]
> > Starting system settings from the terminal prints one line:
> > log_user_manager: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name
> > org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files"
> > Not sure though whether that’s related.
>
> It certainly sounds likely. Do you start dbus in the default run level?

Yes, I do. Perhaps I’ll set up a virtual machine with another distro and
compare it with that. I got some time on my hands over the next few days.

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